Comments on: Year’s Best Year’s Best http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14 Scientific Romances and Other Curiosities from the Antipodes Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Lawson http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-33 Chris Lawson Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:41:57 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-33 Travis Tea, by the way, is the author whose novel <em>Atlanta Nights</em> was...how shall I put this?... too <em>controversial </em>for the publisher to print. For the full story, which is quite instructive for writers considering alternative publishing houses, see the <a title="Travis Tea, Atlanta Nights" href="http://www.travistea.com/">Travis Tea official website</a>. Travis Tea, by the way, is the author whose novel Atlanta Nights was…how shall I put this?… too controversial for the publisher to print. For the full story, which is quite instructive for writers considering alternative publishing houses, see the Travis Tea official website.

]]> By: Chris Lawson http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-32 Chris Lawson Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:26:19 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-32 Yes indeed. I had read Jeff's piece in LOCUS last year, and when I thought of this particular post, I went back and checked to make sure I wasn't copying Jeff from memory and fooling myself into thinking it was original. While Jeff made a lot of great jokes about the proliferation of Year's Best Anthologies (my favourite was THE YEAR'S BEST EXIGUOUS POLDERS, ed. John Clute), he didn't take this particular approach or use the same twist. Mind you, Jeff deserves a tip of the hat...now done. Ah, the joys of unfettered administrative power! Yes indeed. I had read Jeff’s piece in LOCUS last year, and when I thought of this particular post, I went back and checked to make sure I wasn’t copying Jeff from memory and fooling myself into thinking it was original. While Jeff made a lot of great jokes about the proliferation of Year’s Best Anthologies (my favourite was THE YEAR’S BEST EXIGUOUS POLDERS, ed. John Clute), he didn’t take this particular approach or use the same twist. Mind you, Jeff deserves a tip of the hat…now done. Ah, the joys of unfettered administrative power!

]]> By: Kanaloa, the Squid God http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-29 Kanaloa, the Squid God Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:36:03 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-29 O Mortals! That was not Jeff VanderMeer but Ferje Vedfamner. These are two very different individuals separated by more than mere anagrammatisation. Do not quibble with the Gods! I made the creatures of the sea; I can make a word! Mr Femdarven thought he would own that joke in perpetuity by spinning out as many meaningless variations as he could think of! But his feeble intelligence missed one! He did not recognise the Meta-Joke before his very eyes! Cower before my recursive might, Mr Evamfderen! The Squid God has spoken! O Mortals!

That was not Jeff VanderMeer but Ferje Vedfamner. These are two very different individuals separated by more than mere anagrammatisation. Do not quibble with the Gods! I made the creatures of the sea; I can make a word!

Mr Femdarven thought he would own that joke in perpetuity by spinning out as many meaningless variations as he could think of! But his feeble intelligence missed one! He did not recognise the Meta-Joke before his very eyes! Cower before my recursive might, Mr Evamfderen!

The Squid God has spoken!

]]> By: jstrahan http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-28 jstrahan Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:15:24 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-28 I thought this was funny when Jeff VanderMeer did it for Locus last year too (http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Features/0401_Anthologies.html). I thought this was funny when Jeff VanderMeer did it for Locus last year too (http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Features/0401_Anthologies.html).

]]> By: Notes From Coode Street » Squidded http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-27 Notes From Coode Street » Squidded Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:07:23 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-27 [...] I wrote the post below for Talking Squid, but after this post I just couldn’t see a way to make it fit. Back to the drawing board!   [...] [...] I wrote the post below for Talking Squid, but after this post I just couldn’t see a way to make it fit. Back to the drawing board!   [...]

]]> By: Emerald City Weblog » Perfect: Science Fiction and Fantasy News http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-25 Emerald City Weblog » Perfect: Science Fiction and Fantasy News Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:08:01 +0000 http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/14#comment-25 [...] Chris Lawson has the last word on Year’s Best anthologies. [...] [...] Chris Lawson has the last word on Year’s Best anthologies. [...]

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